[bookport] Re: new book port
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:54:32 -0500
I agree with Gary and Mark. I work at a demanding job, and I need to read
reports, trade journals, and such to keep up with my peers. I need to read
these quickly for learning, not for entertainment. Same deal for accessing
recipes in the kitchen.
I wish someone would make a reading product with two voice modes, one for
more human-like speech for leisure reading and the other mode being some
variant of a more robotic but much faster voice for efficiency. I think I'd
tend toward the robotic speech more often because I'm always in a hurry to
do something. When you speed up the human-like voices, they just sound
weird, not really faster because they're not clear.
On my computer, I find that I use JAWS and Eloquence for serious reading
where I need to take in information effectively. I use Neospeech in Kurzweil
for pleasure reading, mostly mystery novels.
Monica Willyard
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